Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780192856258 |
ISBN10: | 0192856251 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 192 pages |
Size: | 242x162x15 mm |
Weight: | 424 g |
Language: | English |
588 |
Category:
The American House Poem, 1945-2021
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 19 October 2023
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Short description:
This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an "American house poem," which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy.
Long description:
The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the segregation of cities and public housing; then through the expansion of private credit that lays the ground for the subprime mortgage crisis of the early twenty-first century. Walt Hunter argues that, as access to housing expands to include a greater share of the US population, the house emerges as a central metaphor for the poetic imagination.
From the kitchenette of Gwendolyn Brooks to the duplex of Jericho Brown, and from the suburban imagination of Adrienne Rich to the epic constructions of James Merrill, the American house poem represents the changing abilities of US poets to imagine new forms of life while also building on the past. In The American House Poem, 1945-2021, Hunter focuses on poets who register the unevenly distributed pressures of successive housing crises by rewriting older poetic forms. Writing about the materials, tools, and plans for making a house, these poets express the tensions between making their lives into art and freeing their lives from inherited constraints and conditions.
From the kitchenette of Gwendolyn Brooks to the duplex of Jericho Brown, and from the suburban imagination of Adrienne Rich to the epic constructions of James Merrill, the American house poem represents the changing abilities of US poets to imagine new forms of life while also building on the past. In The American House Poem, 1945-2021, Hunter focuses on poets who register the unevenly distributed pressures of successive housing crises by rewriting older poetic forms. Writing about the materials, tools, and plans for making a house, these poets express the tensions between making their lives into art and freeing their lives from inherited constraints and conditions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Gwendolyn Brooks and Housing as a Civil Right
Unmaking a Home: Adrienne Rich and the Suburbs
An Immaterial World: James Merrill, Finance, and the Renovation of the House Poem
The American Poetic Subprime: Contemporary Poetry, Race, and Genre
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Gwendolyn Brooks and Housing as a Civil Right
Unmaking a Home: Adrienne Rich and the Suburbs
An Immaterial World: James Merrill, Finance, and the Renovation of the House Poem
The American Poetic Subprime: Contemporary Poetry, Race, and Genre
Notes
Bibliography
Index